As prices for most necessary commodities, such as fuel, rise and salaries fall, citizens of Europe’s strongest economy resort to desperate measures. In Germany truck drivers are being attacked by fuel-stealing thieves.

A full tank of the cheapest gas in that country can often cost over a hundred euro, and when it comes to big trucks – filling them up with diesel could cost up to fifteen hundred euro.RT’s Egor Piskunov, who is in Germany, reports that these trucks with huge and easily accessible fuel tanks are an easy target during pit stops.

He talked to a German truck driver who says that the situation has got so bad, that even drivers themselves are being attacked.